The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-24

hot corn with impunity.
JOY Wo is the contradictory name of a
San Francisco Chinaman.
The pay of circus clowns ranges from
twenty to fifty dollars week.
A SEASIDE letter tells Of bathing suits
that fit like the paint on board.
THE latest wonder is a man who breaks
cobble stones with his naked fist.
THE New York Sun pays its reporters
eight dollars a column for matter used.
SIR ROGER TICHBoRNE, alias Arthur Or
ton, is .'tending bar" in New York sa-
loon.
GENERAL GREELr, Chief of the Signal
Service, has gone to Europe for two
months.
The e7O,OOO given to Queen Victoria su
her jubilee will be devoted to the training
of nurses.
THE President has appointed Frederick
Klimper to be appraiser of merchandise at
Cincinnati.
PAT. SnEEpY is said to have cleared
something like $50, 900 by his John l.. Sui
livan tours.
THE Prohibitionists have carried the To-
cal option elections in Florida SO far as tho
counties have voted.
A HORSE with goggles was one of the at
fractions of the Clinton Square market
place in Boston the other day.
SOME of the peach-growers about Ne
vada, City, Col, get s400 per acre for their
fruit, sold on the trees, this year.
THE East Tennessee, Virginio and Geor-
gia Company will extend it's line through
Arkansas, via Little Rock, cato Kansas.
NIGHr lamps in the snape of an owl are
the latest in that line. The lamp is in
the body, and the light comes from the
eyes.
SIX Norwegian officers and fourteen
guardsmen have LEFT that country for
Chicago TO attend tho military encamp-
ment.
AN Oil City Pa.) man claims the prize
for sunfiowers, having one in his garden
that measures fifty-four inches in circum-
ference:
THERE is on exhibition in Richfeld,
Kan, cucumber three feet nine inches in
length, and weighing five and three-Quar-
ter pounds.
LORD ELY is one of the few Irish land
lords who get any thing from their estates
He draws SlOO,OOO year from his tenants
with little trouble.
dundred miles of railroad in 1880, now has
th,out seven times that extent, mostly
'kned and operated by Americans.
er In PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil, is living
lack ofy at Baden-B Baden with small fami-
below rty. He will spend the winter in
eygypta and visit England next spring.
WHEN you see man look at his watch
and put it back into his pocket, ask him
the time, and in nine cases out of ten he
can not tell you till he has looked at it
again.
THERE is proposition to put some roads
together that will make the time between
Boston and New York four hours. There
are to be no wooden bridges, heavy curves
or crossings.
One of the last bequests Of Mrs. Vim
cent, the Boston actress, was that the
money that people felt disposed to spend
on flowers for her funeral should be sent
to the hospital.
A LONDON news agent says that the
sales OF the five American magazines re.
issued in England exceed the sales of the
twenty-five leading magazines Of the
United Kingdom.
A MEXICAN paper says the condition Of
the very poor in the city of Mexico is most
lamentable. Neither Naples nor Constan-
tinople, in their lowest quarters, can show
worse squalor or more saddening specta-
cles.
II. b. FREEMAN, of Toomsboro, Ca, has q
moccasin snake that he caught when
young, placed in u bottle, corlked it per-
fectly air tight, and for two years it has
had nothing to eat or drink, and is yet
alive.
THE corn-fields in the Dismal Swamp OF
Virginia are overrun with bears, and
some Of the farmers have killed or cap.
tured several in a single night. The Nor
folk markets are well supplied with bear
meat.
WIN. T. STANsBURY has been compost
tor on the Baltimore Sun for fifty years
and yet his eyes are as good as ever, and
he nightly sets the financial column in
agate, the smallest type that Is used or
the paper.
Mrs. AcHsAH CRAFT, who died at Lam
berton, N. j., recently, aged one hundred
cast her vote for Thomas Jefferson fol
President of the United States soon after
abe was eighteen years old-as was ther
she custom.
The three-year-old son of Michael Cur
ron, Of Susquehanna, N. Y, was seized
with convulsions and u doctor was called
Euspecting that the boy had been overeat
ing, the doctor gave him an emetic, and
soon after the child elected o 1.-Two lizard
two and half inches long. The boy i.
now all right.
WALTER PIERCE, Of Gloversville, N. Y, q
boy of seventeen, smoked fifteen cigar
cites after breakfast, the other day, and
then lay down on a sofa. At dinner-time
he was found perfectly unconscious, and
Il took doctor several hours to restore
him. He will recover this time, and vows
no will have nothing more to do with
cigarettes.
BRET HARTE has grown SO gray that
those who have not seen him since he lef,
this country to accept tho Glasgow con
sulste would hardly recognize him now
His hair, which is rather long and lies in
masses on his forehead, is snow white
while his mustache, which 10 very heavy,
4 still streaked with brown.
THE other day Patrick Shannon walked
70 the desk Of the city editor of the St.
Louis Republican and insisted upon giving
his name and residence and q brief sketch
Of his life He said that he was going
AWAY and was not coming back again. He
kept his word, for he walked directly to q
csnveniert place, jumped into the RIVER
I'D WAS drowned.